A graphical boot manager for EFI- and UEFI-based computers, such as all
Intel-based Macs and recent (most 2011 and later) PCs. rEFInd presents a
boot menu showing all the EFI boot loaders on the EFI-accessible
- partitions, and optionally BIOS-bootable partitions on Macs.
- EFI-compatbile OSes, including Linux, provide boot loaders that rEFInd can
- detect and launch. rEFInd can launch Linux EFI boot loaders such as ELILO,
- GRUB Legacy, GRUB 2, and 3.3.0 and later kernels with EFI stub support.
- EFI filesystem drivers for ext2/3/4fs, ReiserFS, Btrfs, HFS+, and ISO-9660
- enable rEFInd to read boot loaders from these filesystems, too. rEFInd's
- ability to detect boot loaders at runtime makes it very easy to use,
- particularly when paired with Linux kernels that provide EFI stub support.
+ partitions, and optionally BIOS-bootable partitions on Macs and BIOS boot
+ entries on UEFI PCs with CSMs. EFI-compatbile OSes, including Linux,
+ provide boot loaders that rEFInd can detect and launch. rEFInd can launch
+ Linux EFI boot loaders such as ELILO, GRUB Legacy, GRUB 2, and 3.3.0 and
+ later kernels with EFI stub support. EFI filesystem drivers for ext2/3/4fs,
+ ReiserFS, Btrfs, NTFS, HFS+, and ISO-9660 enable rEFInd to read boot
+ loaders from these filesystems, too. rEFInd's ability to detect boot
+ loaders at runtime makes it very easy to use, particularly when paired with
+ Linux kernels that provide EFI stub support.
href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
<p>Originally written: 4/19/2012; last Web page update:
-3/1/2015, referencing rEFInd 0.8.7</p>
+3/2/2015, referencing rEFInd 0.8.7</p>
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<li>User munlik has created a theme called <a href="http://munlik.deviantart.com/art/rEFInd-boot-manager-theme-Regular-theme-512091944">Regular-theme</a> on Deviantart.</li>
+<li>Nitrofurano has posted <a href="http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php?content=169069">a 1970s-inspired theme</a> on opendesktop.org.</li>
+
</ul>
<p>If you've created or discovered another rEFInd theme, please <a href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">tell me about it</a> so that I can provide a link to it from this page.</p>
A graphical boot manager for EFI- and UEFI-based computers, such as all
Intel-based Macs and recent (most 2011 and later) PCs. rEFInd presents a
boot menu showing all the EFI boot loaders on the EFI-accessible
-partitions, and optionally BIOS-bootable partitions on Macs. EFI-compatbile
-OSes, including Linux, provide boot loaders that rEFInd can detect and
-launch. rEFInd can launch Linux EFI boot loaders such as ELILO, GRUB
-Legacy, GRUB 2, and 3.3.0 and later kernels with EFI stub support. EFI
-filesystem drivers for ext2/3/4fs, ReiserFS, HFS+, and ISO-9660 enable
-rEFInd to read boot loaders from these filesystems, too. rEFInd's ability
-to detect boot loaders at runtime makes it very easy to use, particularly
-when paired with Linux kernels that provide EFI stub support.
+partitions, and optionally BIOS-bootable partitions on Macs and BIOS boot
+entries on UEFI PCs with CSMs. EFI-compatbile OSes, including Linux,
+provide boot loaders that rEFInd can detect and launch. rEFInd can launch
+Linux EFI boot loaders such as ELILO, GRUB Legacy, GRUB 2, and 3.3.0 and
+later kernels with EFI stub support. EFI filesystem drivers for ext2/3/4fs,
+ReiserFS, Btrfs, NTFS, HFS+, and ISO-9660 enable rEFInd to read boot
+loaders from these filesystems, too. rEFInd's ability to detect boot
+loaders at runtime makes it very easy to use, particularly when paired with
+Linux kernels that provide EFI stub support.
%prep
%setup -q
# Remove any existing NVRAM entry for rEFInd, to avoid creating a duplicate.
ExistingEntry=`efibootmgr | grep "rEFInd Boot Manager" | cut -c 5-8`
if [[ -n $ExistingEntry ]] ; then
- efibootmgr --bootnum $ExistingEntry --delete-bootnum
+ efibootmgr --bootnum $ExistingEntry --delete-bootnum &> /dev/null
fi
cd /usr/share/refind-%{version}
# Run the rEFInd installation script. Do so with the --shim option
# if Secure Boot mode is suspected and if a shim program can be
-# found, or without it if not. If a shim installation is attempted
-# and the sbsign and openssl programs can be found, do the install
-# using a local signing key. Note that this option is undesirable
-# for a distribution, since it would then require the user to
-# enroll an extra MOK. I'm including it here because I'm NOT a
-# distribution maintainer, and I want to encourage users to use
-# their own local keys.
+# found, or without it if not. If the sbsign and openssl programs
+# can be found, do the install using a local signing key. Note that
+# this option is undesirable for a distribution, since it would
+# then require the user to enroll an extra MOK. I'm including it
+# here because I'm NOT a distribution maintainer, and I want to
+# encourage users to use their own local keys.
if [[ $IsSecureBoot == "1" && -n $ShimFile ]] ; then
if [[ -n $SBSign && -n $OpenSSL ]] ; then
./install.sh --shim $ShimFile --localkeys --yes
./install.sh --shim $ShimFile --yes
fi
else
- ./install.sh --yes
+ if [[ -n $SBSign && -n $OpenSSL ]] ; then
+ ./install.sh --localkeys --yes
+ else
+ ./install.sh --yes
+ fi
fi
# CAUTION: Don't create a %preun or a %postun script that deletes the files